What is the purpose of the story, as far as the storyteller is concerned? What is he or she trying to accomplish? 

I’ll be talking about the tales of the Ox and Donkey. This tale is being told to daughter in hopes of a lesson she can learn. The father doesn’t want his daughter to marry a king who is known for killing his wives while in their sleep. In the tales of the Ox and Donkey the Ox complained that he does more work than the donkey. The donkey suggested for the ox pretend to be too exhausted to work. Doing so allowed the ox to go back but causing the donkey to pick up the work. The donkey advice ended up helping the ox but at the same time hurting him. Taking his easy layback lifestyle away into an everyday working animal. In some perspective this is a negative outcome and in another perspective it’s positive. Helping a friend at all cost may be worth it to some people while other person rather just help only when it has no cost. The donkey advice towards the ox is a representation of the daughter, just because the daughter can help find a way or the kings to stop murdering his wives do not mean she should try. If she fails she dies and that is not worth the risk of saving other females from dying. Even after the story the daughter still begs the father to go. The daughter do not seem to scared that she might die because she feel that even though the donkey lost his easy life style he still ended up helping a friend even though it hurts him. The daughter can give it a shot